Search Results

between the ancient sites of two Norman motte and bailey castles at the extreme ends of the village, Holy Trinity Church is the topographical as well as the spiritual centre of Ascott; old stone houses

Having completed the tour of Daventry town centre, we now look at some of the 20th-century housing and industrial development.

Safer livings were gained beyond river and sea when commercial growth pro- vided jobs in hotels, houses, shops, clubs and banks.

The diminutive building just beyond it, at the other corner of Donegall Place, was now the Royal Hotel, but it had been built by Lord Donegall as his town house.

This splendid setting shows off St Mary's alongside Chieveley Manor House, which is of red brick with a hipped roof.

At Baldock it formed the length of White Horse Street and Hitchin Street.

other hand, the earliest that Brierley Hill is known to have been inhabited is 1619, though by the mid 18th century it too was noted for its coal pits, nail-making, brickworks, forges and glass- houses

They were escorted over the hills by the Earl of Ilchester's Yeomanry after spending a couple of nights at Melbury House.

The Tontine, overlooking the canal basin, offers traditional draught beers and food, but in 1788 it was owned by the Canal Company; the houses on each side of the original inn were used by hop merchants

In 1922 it housed the first performances of the Petersfield Operatic Society, and in 1928 the Corn Exchange was converted for retail use.

Other members of the family also lived in large houses in the town.

The rebuilding took nearly twenty years, and the craftsmen tried to put only the best and finest materials back into Manchester's chief house of God. 192 new traceried panels were fitted to

Springs bubble up through the underlying sandstone, just as they do at Spring Grove House (now the Safari and Leisure Park).

In the basement of the house on the left of the picture, William Rootes had a bicycle repair shop, the forerunner of the Rootes Motor Group. Central Kent

Looking across the green at the airy and spacious village, we see the Old Rectory (left); the tallest of the next three buildings is the old police station and court house, with the White Heifer pub on

Paull's lighthouse, directly at the end of the path, was built in 1836 and is now a private house. The 74-gun wooden warship Anson was built here in 1816.

Next-door, in Pyne House, above the shop of chemist Henry Matthew Neale at No 13, Miss Phyllis Sheppard taught music. Further up the hill is the bow-fronted Three Cups Hotel (centre).

In its early years it developed into a substantial fishing port with two deep-sea fishing companies, a fish quay and ice-house, and ship repairing facilities.

Entering the town, you may see some of the following: several acres of Victorian housing, from railway-side terraces to detached, self-confident villas; a church with a nice green spire; a white

This is the Shirburne's village; it was started by the family to house estate workers, and servants from nearby Stonyhurst, whose entrance is on the left.

Every shop on the route was closed, and almost all houses had their blinds drawn.

The house, which was at one time the largest building in the north of England, was built by Sir Nicolas Sherburn (Shirburn) around 1690.

The Albion Hotel and a beer house, the Cross Keys, were previously on the Town Hall site.

A very stern Dr Fenner had his practice here in Hamilton House; he is reputed to have chastised a young Winston Churchill, who had badly misbehaved and injured his nanny in a tantrum.